Forum Flash | He takes the low road

Rick Perry

Republicans, take heart. You did good last year when you flushed Texas Gov. Rick Perry out of the running for president of the United States. Not only was he unimpressive as a national candidate, embarrassing himself with public flubs, in recent days he has revealed himself to be a small and petty man in his comments about Texas state Sen. Wendy Davis.

She is the Lone Star lawmaker who this week filibustered an anti-abortion law that would have closed most of the state's abortion clinics. Her efforts, and that of her supporters, managed to stop the bill, if only temporarily. The governor, who supported it, didn't waste any time in calling for a special session to take it up again, or in getting very personal in remarks about Sen. Davis before the National Right to Life Convention being held in Texas. He told the crowd it was too bad the one-time teenage mother "hadn't learned from her own example that every life must be given a chance and that every life matters."

If they could, the prisoners whose execution orders the governor has signed might have asked him what he meant by that. As for Sen. Davis, she took the high road, where she did not meet Gov. Perry, and said his comments were without dignity before enumerating the drawbacks of the bill she helped defeat ... for a while.

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Forum Flash | He takes the low road

Republicans, take heart. You did good last year when you flushed Texas Gov. Rick Perry out of the running for president of the United States.